Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing by Mar Hicks

History of Computing

Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing

Mar Hicks

352 pages hardcover 2017

3 editions

nonfiction computer science feminism gender history politics technology informative reflective slow-paced
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How Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women.In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What h...

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